Collar-holder



C. H. ALLEN.

COLLAR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNI: s. 192I.

1,387,878. Patented Aug. 16,1921.

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. CHARLES H. ALLEN, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

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Specicaton of Letters Patent. Patented Aug, 16', 1921.,

Application mea nine e, 1921. serial No. 475,297.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that LCHAnLns II. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, in thecounty of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Holders,

Lof which the following is a specification.

carrying the arm members.

My' invention relates to soft collar holders of the double clamp type and has for its essential objects inexpensiveness of manufacture, facility of application, security ofengagement without injury to thefabric, and

interlocking securityV of the clamping partsY against transverse Vmovement of the rear arm members relativelyY to the loop portions To the above ends 'my invention consists in suchparts andin'such-combinationsof parts as Afall within the scope of the appended claims. Y'

In the accompanying drawings which form apart of this specification,

Figures 1 and 2 are front and side eleva- Y tions respectively-of the blank from which the holder is formed, Y

Figs. 3 and 4, front and plan views respectively of the collar holder, and

Fig. 5, a section on line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

Like reference charactersV parts throughout the views.

' In detail my holder is initially cut by suitable tools from resilient thin sheetmetal into an oblong body having near each end an arch 8 cut from the material and raised from the plane of the material', andY having" similar arches V9 cut and raised Vfrom the planeof the material at each side of the center of the body. y

The blank is next bent up into final form which consists of an oblong, preferably slightly curved body 10 provided at each end with a rearward and inward bend forming an open loop 11, whence thematerial extends inwardly and, in this instance, slightly for# wardly, forming a forward arm 12, whose inner portion is bent V'lownwardly and'outindicate like wardly forming a reversely disposed open loop 18 from which theA material extends outwardly, and in this instance, slightly' rearwardly, forming a free rear arm 14 project ing slightly beyond the end of the rst loop. By the'bending operation the arches 9 with the oblong opening formed by rtheir elevation from the plane of the material, occur in intermediate portions of the arms 12 and are .forwardly directed. In intermediate portions of the arms 14 occurs the arches 8 raised from the plane 'of the material in front of the resultant oblongopenings 15.

It will be noted that the arches 8 extend forwardly into the openings 15 so that the lateral walls which bound the openings are on each side of the apices of thel arches 8 thereof in the direction of the first arches.

2. In a 'collar' holder, an oblong body, inwardly directed arms on the ends of the body .behind the same, Voutwardly directed y arms upon the inner ends of the first arms in the rear of the latter, forwardly directed arches cut from yintermediate portions of the forward arms forming slots in said arms, similar arches cut from intermediate portions of the rear arms and raised from the planes thereof and adapted to register in the slots. i

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

CHARLES H. ALLEN'. 

